Omar Khadr, a Canadian man who spent 10 years at Guantanamo Bay after fighting US troops in Afghanistan, is getting more than $10 million and an apology from the Canadian government, according to ...

But Omar Khadr faces serious charges and, if convicted, could face up to life in prison. He was captured in eastern Afghanistan, a region notorious for harboring members of al Qaeda and the Taliban.

Khadr's lawyers have long said he was pushed into war by his father, Ahmed Said Khadr, whose family stayed with Usama bin Laden briefly when Omar Khadr was a boy.

The Canadian government's formal apology and reported CAD$10.5million ($7.7million) compensation payment to Canadian citizen Omar Khadr, alleged former child soldier affiliated with Al-Qaeda and ...

Omar Khadr, who pleaded guilty to war crimes, has yet to be transferred to Canada under his plea deal, and the delay may hinder similar deals with other detainees. By Charlie Savage Child Soldier ...

“Mr. Trudeau made Omar Khadr a millionaire, and he didn’t have to,” Kent wrote. Trudeau said last week that it could have cost more than $30 million if the case was not settled.

OMAR KHADR: Everything, a lot of decisions that he made, the reason he took us back there, just a whole bunch of questions about his reasoning behind, you know, his life decisions.

Omar Khadr stops to look out on the North Saskatchewan river during his first long walk and bike ride on May 9, 2015, two days after being freed after having spent nearly half of his life in custody.

As part of his defense before a military commission at Guantanamo, Omar Khadr’s attorneys filed a motion claiming that his confessions were the product of torture. Khadr made incriminating ...

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba – The long-running case of a onetime teenage Al Qaeda fighter is over, with a U.S. military judge sentencing Omar Khadr to eight more years in custody for war … ...

Guantanamo prisoner Omar Khadr has hired two Toronto lawyers known for their work in national security and constitutional law. Aug. 5, 2011. Aug. 5, 2011. 2 min read. Save. New subscriber benefit!